Details

• Brand:

  

  

• SKU:

  W720665-S439

• Positions: Upper
• Other Names:

  Upper Shaft Bolt, Steering Shaft Bolt, Bolt Flanged Hex

• Description:

  This is the genuine Ford steering column bolt, a standard-series Ford fastener catalogued for 2021 and newer Ford applications and used to secure the steering column assembly and its related brackets to the vehicle structure. Fasteners in the Ford W-series carry a defined thread form, head style, grade, and corrosion-resistant plating, and in a steering column joint those specifications are safety critical: the bolt has to maintain accurate clamp load through years of thermal cycling and road vibration so that the column, the intermediate shaft coupling, and the mounting bracket stay rigidly located and the driver steering input reaches the rack without lash. Owners and technicians order this bolt when the original is lost during a column, intermediate shaft, ignition lock, or dash removal, when the head has been rounded off by a slipping tool, when threads are stretched, galled, or cross-threaded, when corrosion has attacked the plating on a vehicle that has seen road salt, or simply because the fastener was disturbed during a repair and the service procedure calls for new hardware. Steering column fasteners should never be substituted with a generic hardware-store bolt: grade, thread pitch, shank length, and plating all matter, and an underspecified bolt in a steering joint can loosen and introduce play in the column. Always torque the bolt to the value published in the Ford workshop procedure for the joint being assembled, using a calibrated torque wrench, and follow any specified tightening sequence. If the original bolt is a torque-to-yield or otherwise single-use design in your application, do not reuse it; install new hardware. Because Ford lists this fastener across multiple vehicle lines rather than a single model, confirm the callout in the illustration for your specific vehicle and joint before ordering so the correct length and thread are selected.

• Notes: Part cannot be reused/reinstalled.

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